CVE-2025-38086 Information

Jun 30, 2025 cve

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: ch9200: fix uninitialised access during mii_nway_restart

In mii_nway_restart() the code attempts to call mii->mdio_read which is ch9200_mdio_read(). ch9200_mdio_read() utilises a local buffer called uff\ which is initialised with control_read(). However uff\ is conditionally initialised inside control_read():

    if (err == size) 
            memcpy(data buf size);

If the condition of rr == size\ is not met then uff\ remains uninitialised. Once this happens the uninitialised uff\ is accessed and returned during ch9200_mdio_read():

    return (buff[0] | buff[1] << 8);

The problem stems from the fact that ch9200_mdio_read() ignores the return value of control_read() leading to uinit-access of uff.

To fix this we should check the return value of control_read() and return early on error.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/119766de4930ff40db9f36b960cb53b0c400e81b https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33163c68d2e3061fa3935b5f0a1867958b1cdbd2 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4da7fcc098218ff92b2e83a43f545c02f714cedd https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bd2569d0b2f918e9581f744df0263caf73ee76c https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a350f30d65197354706b7759b5c89d6c267b1a9 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ad0452c0277b816a435433cca601304cfac7c21 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9da3e442714f7f4393ff01c265c4959c03e88c2f https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdaa6d1cb2ff1219c6c822b27655dd170ffb0f72

CNNVD-202506-3624 (Published: 2025-06-28)

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